Strategy 2. Maintain Ongoing and Two-way Communication with Families
Consistent and ongoing two-way communication between staff and parents helps keep information at parents’ fingertips and keeps staff informed about changes in families’ lives.
Consistent and ongoing two-way communication between staff and parents helps keep information at parents’ fingertips and keeps staff informed about changes in families’ lives.
Staff wellness can be promoted by providing regular opportunities for staff self-care, including opportunities to socialize and relaxby making available tools for managing stress.
Online lessons can help families learn skills and practices to support their child’s development. These lessons also can bolster families’ and their child’s learning.
Staff wellness can be supported by offering training and technical assistance in ways to handle stressful times, such as when holding sensitive conversations, managing conflict, and dealing with trauma.
Phone or video check-ins, as a follow-up to online learning opportunities, can support family engagement with learning materials, promote program completion, and strengthen learning overall.
Providing staff with reflective supervision can improve staff wellness by addressing barriers to wellness, improving job satisfaction, and strengthening relationships throughout the program.
Creating virtual spaces for parents to build relationships with other parents allows them to share their learning and challenges and to get additional support from other parents as experts.
An attitude is a way of thinking or feeling about someone or something that is often reflected in a person's behavior. Our attitudes create a frame of mind that shapes how we behave in our personal and professional life.
In this first webinar, hear about innovative examples of Head Start programs and community organizations joining forces to strengthen family well-being.
Tweety Yates, a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, describes and demonstrates the Parents Interacting with Infants (PIWI) model for group socializations.
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